Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 12/10/2013, MSTues

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from the VRT. In this release we introduced 37 new rules and made modifications to 25 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

In VRT's rule release:

Microsoft Security Bulletin 2914486:
A programming error in the Microsoft Windows Kernel-Mode NDProxy Driver
could lead to an escalation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 28867 through 28872.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-096:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Office TIFF processing that may
lead to remote code execution.

Previously released rules will detect attacks targeting this
vulnerability and have been updated with the appropriate reference
information. They are included in this release and are identified with
GID 1, SIDs 28464 through 28473, and 28525 through 28526.

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!